List of riot grrrl bands

The following is a list of notable bands associated with riot grrrl from the early 1990s to the present, mainly in the USA and UK.

NB: some of these bands pre-dated the original riot grrrl era (e.g. Frightwig, Fifth Column, Mecca Normal, Scrawl), while others may be more accurately categorised as grunge - see also 'foxcore' - (e.g. L7, Lunachicks, Babes in Toyland, Dickless, Calamity Jane), queercore (e.g. Tribe 8, Team Dresch, The Third Sex, Sta-Prest, The Butchies, The Need), anarcho/hardcore punk (e.g. Spitboy), garage punk (e.g. Red Aunts), post punk/no wave (e.g. Erase Errata), digital hardcore (Lolita Storm) or indiepop (e.g. Angelica).

Other bands did not identify with riot grrrl during its first wave of the early 1990s but became associated via personal and artistic connections (e.g. 7 Year Bitch), or by fans and/or the media due to aesthetic and genre similarities (e.g. Hole, The Gits). On the same basis bands continue to be associated with or self-identify as riot grrrl up to the present day. However, the problematisation of riot grrrl, and of its status as music genre,^[1] have led to the label being disputed.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

A list of notable bands that specifically self-identified as riot grrrl during the initial early 1990s period would be extremely small, potentially including only Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Excuse 17 and Emily's Sassy Lime in the US, and Huggy Bear, Linus, Pussycat Trash and Skinned Teen in the UK.

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• 7 Year Bitch^[8]

A

• Adickdid^[9]
• Angelica^[10]

B

• Babes in Toyland^[8]
• Bangs^[11]
• Bikini Kill^[8][12]
• Blood Sausage^[13]
• Bratmobile^[8]
• The Butchies^[14]

C

• Cadallaca^[8]
• Calamity Jane^[15]
• Care Bears on Fire^[16]
• Casual Dots^[17]
• The Coathangers^[18]
• Cold Cold Hearts^[19]
• Coping Saw^[20]
• Courtney Love^[21] [Nb. The band 'Courtney Love', not the individual it was named after]

D

• Dickless^[22]
• Dream Nails^[23]

E

• The Element of Crime^[24]
• Emily's Sassy Lime^[25]
• Erase Errata^[26]
• The Ethical Debating Society^[27]
• Excuse 17^[28]

F

• Fabulous Disaster^[29]
• Fifth Column^[30]
• Finally Punk^[31]
• Frantic Spiders^[32]
• Free Kitten^[33]
• Frightwig^[20]
• The Frumpies^[20]

G

• The Gits^[34]
• Gossip^[35] (early)

H

• Hole^[36] (early)
• Heartless Martin^[37]
• Heavens to Betsy^[38]
• Huggy Bear^[8]

J

• Jack Off Jill^[39]
• The Julie Ruin^[40]

K

• Kenickie^[20] (early)
• Kitten Forever^[41]
• Kate Nash^[42] (after 2010)
• The Kut^[43]

L

• L7^[8]
• Le Tigre ^[44]
• Linus^[20]
• Lolita Storm^[45]
• Lucid Nation^[46]
• Lunachicks^[47]
• Lungleg^[20]

M

• Mambo Taxi^[10]
• Mecca Normal^[48]
• Mika Miko^[35]

N

• The Need^[11]

P

• Pantychrist^[49]
• Partyline^[50]
• Period Pains^[51]
• Petty Crime^[10]
• Phantom Pregnancies^[24]
• Pussycat Trash^[10]
• Pussy Riot^[52]

Q

• The Quails^[53]

R

• Red Aunts^[54]
• Red Monkey^[10]

S

• Scrawl^[55]
• Screaming Females^[40][56]
• The Shondes^[57]
• Shoplifting^[58]
• Shrag^[59]
• Sister George^[20]
• Skating Polly^[60]
• Skinned Teen^[20]
• Skinny Girl Diet^[61]
• Slant 6^[62]
• Sleater-Kinney^[8]
• Spider and the Webs^[63]
• Spitboy^[64]
• Sta-Prest^[65]
• Suture^[66]
• Swan Island^[67]

T

• Tacocat^[68]
• Tattle Tale^[69]
• Team Dresch^[8]
• The Third Sex^[70]
• Throwing Up^[71]
• Tribe 8^[72]
• The Tuts^[73]

V

• Voodoo Queens^[10]

W

• Wetdog^[74]
• Wild Flag^[75]
• White Lung^[76][77]
• The Wimmins' Institute^[78]

See also

• Riot grrrl
• Queercore
• Indie pop
• All-female band

References